Road fixed / fixed road

Just to add to your interest- I rode fixed around Truro/ Falmouth area on 44/17, about 68 GI

I'm not a big fan of flipping a wheel to have the option of 2 x cogs at the back, that just feels like having a shit geared bike.
I think 68 ish means you're in that compromise sweet spot for hills, down hills and flat .
From the little research I've done, the hills lengthen over the ride and a lot of riders say ease a little ?
We have a good mix of long (10KM) and short sharp climbs(20% +) locally so plenty to practise on and it'll be in 2026.

Just been to the shop to check it out, spending Christmas making a parts wish list. To be used as a long distance Audax, simple, lightweight bike.

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I like it!

I am not jealous. I am not jealous. Repeat 100 times.

Fun!!! Keep us updated please

It may feel a tad overgeared and I rode it constantly into a prevailing wind, but this bike always, always feels great.

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One of the nicest on here

I'll take that, thank you very very much!

Good looking winter ride!
I do not naturally tend to ride with a high cadence - so in tempted to go for a gear that is slightly smaller than my preferred ratio to encourage me to spin and have some headroom when riding against the wind.

Enjoying some winter miles on this thing. Hope it stays dryish out. Any recommendations for a 1 1/8 straight fork with proper clearance for a 28c or more? This is tight with a 26c gravel king and wish I could get up nearer a 30 given the state of the roads.

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I'm currently running an all city nature boy fork on my brakeless road fixed in its current state...

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Nice, but I'm after carbon and ideally fully carbon. Wondering if a Columbus minimal would work. Says it's for non integrated headset which would be a problem I think...although I'm not sure why specifically...

Minimal has a small fork crown, which looks ugly up against a 45mm diameter IS type head tube. Mechanically, it will work.

I don't blame you for wanting to go carbon fiber. I will be swapping back to a full carbon fork acquired last summer for a bargain wanting to slam da stem when weather dries up. I'm also planning to run a taller gear to take advantage of the more aero position....

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There is the SPA Cycles Audax carbon fork. Alu steerer tho. It says 28mm and guards but it doesn't really say whether it fits 28s with or without the guards. It's also £160 which seems steep...
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m21b0s29p2625/SPA-CYCLES-Carbon-Alloy-Audax-Road-Fork

Nice to see the old girl.

Ta ta ta!!
Yeah I think I will try it in calmer weather later this week - 48-18 is the lowest I have, dunno why I thought I could ever have pushed 48-15 which was my other flip-flop option!

Any love for the Spa Cycles Audax Mono?

Yep. A lot of money to spend on a fork almost twice the weight of the one coming off...

Few similar things knocking around on eBay for much less.

This is such an easy bike to build very light, seems a shame to put a regular weight fork on.

Tapered headtubes are the worst to thing to happen in road bike design. Would ideally like a nice modern disk fork with 30c clearance, but the only straight tube options are either mega bucks or Ali x with no reviews
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Still going strong. Feels like everything has changed but nothing has changed really since I got from you. Switched the omniums out for some Red cranks at about cost neutral. Half decent wheel set with goldtech hub on the back. The flight saddle died a good few years ago. Old man back means I'm down to a 100mm -7° stem now.

Used it as my main commuter for ages and many a TNRC. Sees many less miles now I need to lug a backpack into town during the week and tend to be on the mountain bike when the weather is good. Dry winter miles and Richmond park lunchtime laps seem to be it's main use case now. Still need to have a crack at a sub hour three lap challenge and get back for a HDIJ trip sometime.

I put the nice bike back together for a year-ending loop in 50x17. Probably the most fun I’ve had on a bike in months even though the tyre was rubbing on filth stuck to the caliper most of the way. I might stick a road fork on to prevent that in future.

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With a road fixed to people generally set up the front brake lever on the same side as on their road bike (i.e. on the right hand side, for most in the UK)?

Yes

Yes. However, according to an old clubmate, fifty-plus years ago, when UK brake set-up was the norm, most front-only fixed bikes were LHS. He said this was to allow for braking when signalling right. I've always had conti brakes, so never an issue for me.